GEN. BOOTH ON PROHIBITION.
AN IN ACCURATE REPORT.
WELLINGTON, May 14.
{ With reference to a statement credi- ‘ .ted to General Booth recently, cabled ‘from Australia, in respect to pl'bhibition, Commissioner Hoclder has re- - cently received a cablegram from General Booth’s secretary correcting - the reported opinion as follows:“Asked if Prohibition was shortly probable in the United Kingdom the ~ General expressed doubt as to the possibility of enforcing so great :1 change on one section of the population unless carried out by -such an overwhel - ing majority as seems improbableyjt A present.” V The report as cabled made it appear that General Booth ’s remarks applied " to Australia. ' _
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 15 May 1920, Page 4
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